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Friday, October 11, 2013

Young Adult Literature Today: Dystopian

Dystopian
is probably one of the most popular genres in young adult literature today.
After the huge success of the series of TheHungerGames, many other dystopian novels followed in its afterglow
including Divergent, TheMazeRunner, and Delirium.

Although some zombie novels could
come under the same category as being dystopian, I consider zombie novels as a
separate genre in itself and therefore will not focus much on them in this
segment.

One of the major qualities of a
dystopian is a post/pre apocalyptic society is which there is usually a corrupt
government system that enforces rules and regulations that would be looked down
upon in modern day society.

Most
dystopian novels are satires, that will mock certain elements in society be
making fun of them in either a humorous or serious way. One of the classic
dystopian books is 1984 by George
Orwell. In this society people are constantly watched by the government
authority called “big brother” and must submit to all their rules, or else they
will be forced to. This book deals with many aspects of society including lies,
fear, and anti-institutionalism.

One
of my favorite aspects about dystopian literature is that the possibilities for
dystopian books are really vast. The amount of things that could stem a
dystopian society can come from anywhere. With all of the things that are wrong
in society today, people can come up with many things to write about.

Dystopian
books also tend to portray a deeper meaning within them, which is another great
aspect of this genre.

With
all of the positives being said, there are also some downsides to the dystopian
genre. Since dystopian is a very large and popular genre, it is also become
very clichéd, just like the paranormal romance genre. Although dystopian books
don’t have their own section the bookstore yet, like the paranormal romance
genre, it won’t be very long before it does. Following the huge success of TheHungerGames, many authors saw its success
and want to jump on the bandwagon in order to gain the amount of success it
gained.

The
other thing that is my pet peeve about dystopian books is that every single
dystopian book gets one way or another compared back to The Hunger Games. This is basically because TheHungerGames was the first dystopian book that ever
got a lot of popularity so people feel the need to compare every single
dystopian book back to it because apparently comparing it back to TheHungerGames measures its success or
something. A lot of the popular dystopian books such as TheMazeRunner and Divergent are very often compared back to TheHungerGames just because they are dystopian
books, and really have nothing in common other than their genre.

Dystopian
is one of my favorite genres of literature, not only to read, but to write as
well and I am hoping to write a dystopian novel sometime in the near future!